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The Federal Governnent has disclosed that about 50,000 non-graduate applicants in its N-Power volunteer programme would be deployed in late September and trained in October. President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide on job creation and youth empowerment, Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, made the disclosure in...

N-Power on Tuesday night announced that the Teach Assessment tests scheduled to commence Wednesday August 2 has been postponed. The information was relayed on the N-Power Twitter account @npower_ng. The programme said “the test will now begin on the 9th of August, 2017”. The handle added...

In just one week of opening application portal, the Federal Government’s youth employment scheme, N-Power, has seen over 1.1million graduates apply. The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Job Creation, Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, dropped the hint in Asaba during an...

Beneficiaries of the N-power programme, an initiative of the Federal Government aimed at reducing unemployment in Edo State have staged a protest over the non-payment of their stipends. The protesters, who were drawn from Egor and Uhunmwode Local Government Areas of the state, alleged that...

Alhaji Mohammed Aliyu, the Coordinator of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), in Niger state on Monday revealed that wrong Bank Verification Numbers [BVN] and account numbers provided by beneficiaries of the N-power job was responsible for delay in payment of their stipends. In an interview...

Some youths from the 13 Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, enlisted for the N-Power documentation exercise, on Monday protested alleged extortion by organisers of the programme which marred the exercise. It was gathered that the unemployed youth numbering over 200, who had besieged the...

Below is a piece by a concerned Nigerian on reasons why you shouldn’t take up the N-power job even if you are offered. Am I telling you to refuse a job opportunity in this recession? Yes, I am, with conditions attached. Is the N-Power job one of the best things this government has put...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has attributed the failure of the Federal Government to engage 200,000 graduates in October as promised to the need to get the required equipment. He however assured Nigerians that the graduates would be engaged in the next two weeks. According to a statement on...

The Presidency says it has completed the selection process for the employment of 200,000 graduates for the N-Power programme designed to engage 500,000. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. He...

The federal government of Nigeria has disclosed that it will soon hire 200,000 out of the 500,000 graduates it promised to employ in its graduate recruitment scheme. “We expect that before the end of the month, we will engage 200,000 out of the 500,000 unemployed graduates the Buhari...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has given the latest on the federal government 500, 000 jobs. Lai Mohammed said the government has commenced shortlisting candidates for the jobs as promised. He disclosed this on Tuesday, in Abuja when a delegation of the...

The federal government N-power programme opened its portal for registration in June 2016 and today, the recruitment process has entered its assessment stage. Here are 10 things you should know about the assesement stage of the programme designed to cater for unemployed graduates. 1. The...